More summer shots!

Beatriz Guerra Picamill

hi paula! this summer i went to the USA, i stayed there for a month, in
july, and i lived with a host family in a small village near michigan called
buchannan, it was my first time that i went to the USA and the experience
was great!i love the american people!
well, one of the photos is about the night in chicago after a bussy day of
shopping, chicago is only two houres far michigan so, we often visited
chicago. when i visited chicago i felt like if i were in a dream, in a
fantasy world! chicago has a lot of skycrapers and is very curious to see
that around chicago there is a sea or a lake, chicago has a port! it´s
pretty beautiful!

this photo show as the chicago´s hard rock cafe! this is a gorgeous place,
when i came in i got impressive coz i have never been in a hard rock cafe
before! it´s so cute!

Blanca Baltasar Mezquita

This summer was not my best summer because in  june I don’t pass three subject and I’m
staying in ac.preuniversitaria all the summer.

One of the weekends of July my cousin,
my uncles, my parents and me with some friends go sailing.

We left home very early as the ship stay
in ‘’El Puerto de SantaMaria’ and  we
had travel by car.

On the ship we went to ‘’Bahia de
Cadiz’’ and we stayed there all the day.I got brown the rest of the dayand and
I swim a lot at the sea, the water temperature was fine.

Monday in morning I had to
return to ac. Preuniversitaria. 

Hi, Paula!

I'm Carlota Guerrero Soro and I'm a new student of your classroom  2º D. I write to
tell you my holidays in Venice.

Venice is a beautiful place, where it points out the San Marco's Square. There, you
can admire the Cathedral and the Palace Ducale. In this square you can have the most
expensive coffee in the world, because it costs 15euros. I got in a góndola through
the bridges.

In Venice the carnival is typical, that's why all shops are full of colourfull masks
and old costumes.

Also, we visited Muano's island where a special glass is made.

In the photo I show you my sister and me with the Venecian masks.

I wouldn't hesitate to visit Venice again in the future.


Congratulations to these brave girls!
The exercise on this post consists on
telling me 15 different grammar mistakes.

Good Luck!

El verano en Irlanda de Cristobal

CRISTOBAL´S SUMER TIME  This sumer I was in Ireland,
I was living in a village call Miltow Malbay in Spanish Point
( West coast of Ireland ), It has this name because in 1588
Spanish Armada drowned in this coast. There all are green,
the weather was like I like ( clowdy and rainy ). I was
walking an visitting places all days. I saw many abadies,
graveyeards,turf and cliff. It´s a very clean country, I hope
that you can go there in a no very far future.
Cristobal



Ooopps! Sorry! I´m afraid there are some mistakes in the previous text by Cristobal,
 I don´t know how that happened. Could you help by rewriting the text  and
correcting the mistakes?

Back from holidays!!!

Dear students, I sincerely hope you all had a good summer, even those of you who had to study also should have had some free and enjoyable time. Now you should be ready for exams or for the new school year, there will be some interesting changes for the students in 1º Bachillerato as they will have to face a selectividad oral English exam too. We will speak Englsih in class and visit the language lab once a fortnight. Anyway I´ll explain everything as soon as I come back to school on the 27th September. While I´m abroad remember to review your English from last summer, try to watch American or British films in original version and read some articles on the internet.

Now, I would like you to post some beautiful and culturally interesting shots from your summer holidays with a brief description of the place. This photograph was taken in Sanlúcar, and they are my daughters, come on, I want to see yours!!!!!

This is finishing for this school year...

Too much to correct, too much to prepare, you are witnesses, sorry for not updating until today, but I´m still looking forward to your comments.

More "falmenc@s guap@s"

Who does this back belong to?

Farmville

Yes, we are some of those fans on the craze of Farmville, I have decided to play to make my students learn some vocabulary as it is only English the language used. We are neighbours and have some pretty nice farms. If you want to play with us, tell us and we will add you as a neighbour.

Don´t be afraid to get hooked on it, you will have time to study.

We have discovered an artist in la Preu!

Don´t you think they are gorgeous? I was completely shocked when María sent me the photos, the paintings are so beautiful... I asked her to give me or even to lend me one of them to hang on the wall of my class, but she refused, a pity but I understand her, she doesn´t want to get rid of any because she is still learning, but anyway, we can predict a future for her, can´t we?

EXERCISE:

1.Make a ranking of the pictures, for example,

"My number one............, number two..............,number three.................. (do all of them, it may help Maria)

2.Describe the last photograph.

Just another "feria": OTAKON in Jerez

IN

OTAKON is a Japanese name which comes from the Japanese word "Otaku". Otakus are people who love manga, anime, computer games and disguising as their favourite characters. Otakons or Manga meetings, are usually held several times a year and in different places, the ones in Barcelona and Jerez are the best in Spain, there you can also find comic writers signing a picture, stalls with clothes, manga, books, kimonos, collection pieces, posters, Katanas and Asian food.

You can also practise several activities like karaoke, kendo, Japanese writing, sumo, basic rules for Japanese language, go, sogi, teruteru, drawing, mandarake, role games, make-up, and there are also contests on disguising among others: The first prize this year was a travel to Japan for two. All these activities take place in public halls, outdoor or indoor. You only must pay to get into in the best ones but never more than 3 euros.

(This information has been provided by Cristobal, 2ºF, ask him if you have any question, he will be glad to answer :)

1.Do you know of any other feria of this kind? Have you visited?

2.What would be your disguise if you went to it?

3.Which activity in Otakon would you practise?

4.What would you buy there?

5.What can you eat there?

Más flamenc@s guap@s

Guapísimas II

Don´t they look beautiful?

We´re still waiting for more photos.........

Primeras de Feria: Guapísim@s

Well, we have the first ones and just waiting for yours...

Did you do something different, come on write, share your experience, it will be welcome.

Feria, feria, ...

Remember to take beautiful photos in Feria to be sent to "the blogso" but to my e-mail adress.

And for the students in 2º I would like to have 3 wishes for the past, 3 for the present and 3 for the future. For example:

(past)

I wish I had had more time for the exercises

(present)

I wish I spoke French

(future)

I wish you would pass in May.

2 different ones by the same cameraman

Levantá! the porters raise and carry a heavy weight.

I don´t believe there are many cities in Europe with this driving sign!

Thankyou Agustín ;)

Conditional clauses

Now we are studying conditional clauses in 2º and in 1º they have already been taught, I have an easy exercise for you: Please finish the following conditional sentences making them true for you:

1. If I could meet a famous person ................................................
2.If I found a purse in the street ...................................................
3.If the weather is unpleasant at the Feria..............................................
4.I wouldn´t have met my best friend .........................................
5.As soon as I finish Bachillerato .....................................................
6. I would have sent my mother a bunch of flowers ...............................
7. If I saw a tsunami getting closer................................................
8. If I were the President of the United States ........................................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDOuwMj7Xzo&feature=related

Could you now describe people´s different reactions to the incoming tsunami?

Tribute

This sort of chiringuito that Elisa has sent from her holidays will be our tribute to all the fantastic chiringuitos on our coasts which will disappear with the "Ley de Costas". It´s a pity, now we won´t be able to repeat those fantastic moments we spent there.

De día y de noche

Manuel took these shots, they were taken in his village, Villanueva del Río y Minas.

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